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john boehner canceled the vote. then he put out a statement saying it's now up to democrats to figure it out. and then the house went into recess and house republicans started going home for christmas. >> mr. chairman, you're close to the speaker. you serve with him on the education committee. does this feel like defeat tonight, when he could not cajole enough votes out of his caucus? >> well, yeah. that's exactly what it is. and he understood it, and he said have a merry christmas, we'll see you after christmas. >> we'll see you after christmas. yes, this was a defeat. this was not how it was supposed to go, but that is what happened in just the past hour. joining us is luke russert, nbc news congressional correspondent. luke, thanks for being here on short notice. appreciate your time. >> what a story, rachel. happy to be here. i've never seen anything like this in my 3 1/2 year on capitol hill. very rare moment. and talking to people whief been here for a while, this doesn't happen very much. >> what are your sou
john boehner canceled the vote. then he put out a statement saying it's now up to democrats to figure it out. and then the house went into recess and house republicans started going home for christmas. >> mr. chairman, you're close to the speaker. you serve with him on the education committee. does this feel like defeat tonight, when he could not cajole enough votes out of his caucus? >> well, yeah. that's exactly what it is. and he understood it, and he said have a merry christmas,...
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things about john boehner. i find it uncynically endearing and human about him. i empathize with him because i too am an uncontrollable public cryer. but in terms of how we got to today's tidal wave of chaos in washington, john boehner crying repeatedly and uncontrollably in the presence of pope francis this month ends up being an important part of the story. we'll never know for sure. mr. boehner has given sort of conflicting answers about it. but john boehner apparently was so moved by the visit of pope francis to the capitol this past month that he decided literally right as pope francis was leaving washington, d.c., he says he decided that if he was ever going to get out of this freaking job it was going to be right then. no time like the present, right now. let's do it. and so in fact the day after pope francis left washington, d.c. and john boehner spent that entire day crying in public in the presence of the pope, the very next day john boehner surprised everybody and he quit. he quit one of the most pow
things about john boehner. i find it uncynically endearing and human about him. i empathize with him because i too am an uncontrollable public cryer. but in terms of how we got to today's tidal wave of chaos in washington, john boehner crying repeatedly and uncontrollably in the presence of pope francis this month ends up being an important part of the story. we'll never know for sure. mr. boehner has given sort of conflicting answers about it. but john boehner apparently was so moved by the...
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this was not john boehner tripping and falling. this looks like john boehner was pushed. who let john boehner took this stand on the payroll tax? john boehner took this defiant out on a limb stand with absolutely nobody in his own party backing him up. john boehner came out this weekend with this bold plan to defy the thing the senate had already approved including a huge majority of people in his own party. he came out with this plan to defy a deal his own party had worked out, to defy a deal he himself had support aid few days earlier, to defy a deal there was overwhelming public support for, john boehner came out this past weekend and boldly declared that house republicans were standing against, against this payroll tax cut extension, and we are not doing it. i realize i said i was for it before and i realize it just got 89 votes in the senate and that senate republicans have signed on to it and that we want to be seen as the tax cut party and that even though we were sort of against this before we'd like to be for it now and it's kind of a mess, but no, john boehner s
this was not john boehner tripping and falling. this looks like john boehner was pushed. who let john boehner took this stand on the payroll tax? john boehner took this defiant out on a limb stand with absolutely nobody in his own party backing him up. john boehner came out this weekend with this bold plan to defy the thing the senate had already approved including a huge majority of people in his own party. he came out with this plan to defy a deal his own party had worked out, to defy a deal...
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it is john boehner. nancy pelosi. at this poemt, after all the fuss and fighting, this is the one moment eric cantor, nancy pelosi walking to the podium. as you see the house chamber here is general celebration. family in the family gallery. john boehner now picks up the gavel. this is a big challenge. joining me now here watching is josh green from bloomberg business week, and karen from the washington host, and -- also from bloomberg. well, we see what just happened. your cover story is a wonderful picture that we'll show in a minute as we watch john boehner taking the podium of the babies in congress in this whole debate. >> yeah, our coverage is about the fiscal cliff politics, and basically our take-away was that congress is a bunch of babies and so i probably should pause to congratulate boehner who it seems like has finally assembled enough votes to actually win a round. >> can i just say, that is a really mean thing to say about babies. >> it's true. >> that crying you heard on the floor was not babies. it was
it is john boehner. nancy pelosi. at this poemt, after all the fuss and fighting, this is the one moment eric cantor, nancy pelosi walking to the podium. as you see the house chamber here is general celebration. family in the family gallery. john boehner now picks up the gavel. this is a big challenge. joining me now here watching is josh green from bloomberg business week, and karen from the washington host, and -- also from bloomberg. well, we see what just happened. your cover story is a...
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only 19% trust john boehner. and in the wake of tonight's developments i would imagine those numbers would get a little worse for the speaker of the house. joining me tonight, former governor howard dean of vermont and cnbc political analyst. mr. dean, good to have you with us, governor. >> thanks, ed. >> give us in short order your commentary without question, what do you think has happened here this evening? >> well, the inside baseball of this is really a problem for the speaker. you can't -- this is something you can't do. you can't have your budget overridden, as governors know, and you can't have a major initiative like this go down when you think you have the votes and you don't. it would not entirely surprise me to see eric cantor or kevin mccarthy, who've been waiting in the wings, kind of gently stack the speaker in the back for a couple years, to make their move after the new session starts. the fiscal cliff, as you know, i believe the country would be better off if we went over the fiscal cliff. we wo
only 19% trust john boehner. and in the wake of tonight's developments i would imagine those numbers would get a little worse for the speaker of the house. joining me tonight, former governor howard dean of vermont and cnbc political analyst. mr. dean, good to have you with us, governor. >> thanks, ed. >> give us in short order your commentary without question, what do you think has happened here this evening? >> well, the inside baseball of this is really a problem for the...
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i like john boehner. i happen to think that he is a good american and wants the government to really do what we're supposed to be doing. is that we're helping people where people can't be helped any further by their own initiatives. i personally believe he is in for a sad awakening next year. and i would like him to stand up and say let's have a clean vote on the budget. that is what we need right now. let's get on with the other issues of the debt and the other issues of where this country is going in terms of its investments. if you look at the last four months in terms of economic growth. if you look at the housing prices and where mortgages are going and where -- now we have a decline, thank god, in foreclosures. we're going in the right direction. but these republicans don't want this president to succeed. and that is where it is at. people are not dumb. they can understand this. i support the health care act, i think it is going to work. they don't want it to be successful. why not? should they have
i like john boehner. i happen to think that he is a good american and wants the government to really do what we're supposed to be doing. is that we're helping people where people can't be helped any further by their own initiatives. i personally believe he is in for a sad awakening next year. and i would like him to stand up and say let's have a clean vote on the budget. that is what we need right now. let's get on with the other issues of the debt and the other issues of where this country is...
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john boehner is not good at his job. we've ventured this as a hypothesis very early on in his speakership, i mean right from the beginning. it seemed like there might be something amiss, right? on the first day as speaker, he tried to have republicans pull off the stunt where they would read the whole constitution from the floor of the house. but even on day one, john boehner could not manage his own symbolic gesture. they skipped parts of the constitution. they skipped parts they did not like. and some parts they skipped because they were reading it out of a loose leaf binder and the pages stuck together. right then we should have known that was a bad sign. john boehner did not even succeed in getting all of his members sworn in when he took over as speaker. two new republican members of congress went to a reception and missed the swearing in. they apparently saw it happening on a tv screen that was playing at the reception, and they sort of tried to swear themselves in by raising their right hand to the television. but
john boehner is not good at his job. we've ventured this as a hypothesis very early on in his speakership, i mean right from the beginning. it seemed like there might be something amiss, right? on the first day as speaker, he tried to have republicans pull off the stunt where they would read the whole constitution from the floor of the house. but even on day one, john boehner could not manage his own symbolic gesture. they skipped parts of the constitution. they skipped parts they did not like....
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boehner and who made john boehner's tenure as speaker so miserable. and honestly if you look at your history the last time republicans in congress had to make an unexpected change in leadership in response to unexpectedly strong pressure from the right, they picked steve scalise. i mean, they went unexpectedly and controversially right-wing in their choice. so is lucky lucky buck owens patron kevin mccarthy a shoo-in for this top job, running congress, two heartbeats away from the presidency? or could we be in for a more hardline surprise choice from the republicans? joining us now is my friend john stanton, d.c. bureau chief of buzzfeed. john, it's great to have you here. thanks for being here. >> it's good to be here. >> so robert costa said earlier this hour that he thinks that kevin mccarthy is becoming the consensus choice, it looks like it might be him. does that seem like that's everybody's view? is there any chance he doesn't become the next speaker? >> yeah. i mean, look, it's house republicans, right? i wouldn't bet on them to do anything. e
boehner and who made john boehner's tenure as speaker so miserable. and honestly if you look at your history the last time republicans in congress had to make an unexpected change in leadership in response to unexpectedly strong pressure from the right, they picked steve scalise. i mean, they went unexpectedly and controversially right-wing in their choice. so is lucky lucky buck owens patron kevin mccarthy a shoo-in for this top job, running congress, two heartbeats away from the presidency?...
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i've met john boehner two or three times in my life. if i have said 50 words in my life to john boehner i would be surprised and every one has consisted of pleasantries, good to see you, mr. speaker. i've never had any substantive conversation with john boehner in any respect. and indeed, this is something that's not publicly known. during the government shutdown i reached out to john boehner and i offered for us to come over and work with the speaker, can we resolve this and actually get something meaningful done to stop the disaster that is obamacare? john boehner's response was i have no interest in talking to you. what possibly could be accomplished by having a conversation, no, i will not meet. so when he says that i'm the worst guy he's ever worked with, he's never worked with me. the thing to understand about washington -- boehner's comments reveal everything you're angry with. when he calls me lucifer, he's not directing that at me. he's directing that at you. what boehner is angry with me for is not anything i've said to him. h
i've met john boehner two or three times in my life. if i have said 50 words in my life to john boehner i would be surprised and every one has consisted of pleasantries, good to see you, mr. speaker. i've never had any substantive conversation with john boehner in any respect. and indeed, this is something that's not publicly known. during the government shutdown i reached out to john boehner and i offered for us to come over and work with the speaker, can we resolve this and actually get...
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boehner from the far right. >> john boehner is in a pretty tough spot. >> sympathy for john boehner. >> or else they will start to call it john boehner care. >> fire, egypt, immigration, the debt. >> there must be a response. >> our borders are now better staffed and better protected. >> the fire is now 20% contained. >> it is not easy being the presiden president. >> john boehner and the house republican leadership have been clearly sending the message that they are not willing to shut down the government at the end of september in order to force the president to agree to de-fund obama care. the message is simple and clear. that will not work. we can't force the president to go along with de-funding obama care. that message? simple enough has enraged some of their tea party friends and right wing radio talk show hosts. >> the republican leadership, that would be boehner, cantor and mccarthy, told the republicans they would not try to de-fund obama care through the continuing resolution, and the attempt to fight with the sequestration levels in spending, no more. this is your john bo
boehner from the far right. >> john boehner is in a pretty tough spot. >> sympathy for john boehner. >> or else they will start to call it john boehner care. >> fire, egypt, immigration, the debt. >> there must be a response. >> our borders are now better staffed and better protected. >> the fire is now 20% contained. >> it is not easy being the presiden president. >> john boehner and the house republican leadership have been clearly sending...
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that is what drove john boehner out. it was having to deal with that time and again, every time one of these deadlines came up, the house freedom caucus would say, well, we will give you -- we will only keep the government open if you give us x, and x was some demand that he could not meet. he got tired of that. he also got tired of the threat of we keep talking about the motion to vacate the chair. so that threat is all off the table through the 2016 election for paul ryan. it's very interesting, he's going to have opportunities there that john boehner never had. the other thing that i'm thinking of, though, it's interesting, you're mentioning in talking about the history of bob michael and newt gingrich and john boehner, the story of john boehner in his congressional career is the story of the evolution of the modern republican party. he was the troublemaker when he started. a generation ago in 1990, it was john boehner was part of a group with newt gingrich that said the republican leadership is too cozy with democrat
that is what drove john boehner out. it was having to deal with that time and again, every time one of these deadlines came up, the house freedom caucus would say, well, we will give you -- we will only keep the government open if you give us x, and x was some demand that he could not meet. he got tired of that. he also got tired of the threat of we keep talking about the motion to vacate the chair. so that threat is all off the table through the 2016 election for paul ryan. it's very...
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i know john boehner. he is from my state. i think he will do the right thing even if it is a profile in courage even if he ends up with a sharp object in his back. >> are you making asimgss about the tea party caucus? >> i'm not taking any. i don't know. i know there are people in the leadership that want to be speaker as much as john boehner wants to be speaker. who knows where that leads? that's inside politics. i want to see this done. i think john boehner will do the right thing. 160, 180 democrats will do the right thing. the tea party will be on the wrong side of history unless they realize the country comes first before a political agenda. >> does it get done before august 2nd? >> i think it gets done some time on monday. >> we'll hold you to that. senator brown, thank you for being on today. >> thanks. >>> earlier harry reid employed republicans. >> the last train is leaving the station. this is our last chance for default. the vote will determine whether we enter the frightened world of default. a vote for the senate
i know john boehner. he is from my state. i think he will do the right thing even if it is a profile in courage even if he ends up with a sharp object in his back. >> are you making asimgss about the tea party caucus? >> i'm not taking any. i don't know. i know there are people in the leadership that want to be speaker as much as john boehner wants to be speaker. who knows where that leads? that's inside politics. i want to see this done. i think john boehner will do the right...
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john boehner called this a not job-killing default. it doesn't kill any jobs but it doesn't necessarily create them either. >> on the other hand, there is something interesting that i thought the president had to say. i saw you nodding as we were listening to barack obama. he thanked the american people as he thinks eventually they put the pressure on and got this deal done, in spite of the fact there are more than a few people who would argue that at least on the far right, the members of the tea party don't necessarily care frankly if they get re-elected. they think they are there on a mission. they there are to do a job. and they are going to do it even if it means they don't get re-elected. do you buy that? >> if this deal goes through, and it looks like it will, but we can't say for sure it will be a modest victory for the forces of compromise and centrism. now they haven't had a lot of victories in this country lately. but the whole idea of compromise in the last few weeks was on the line, and the president last week in his prime
john boehner called this a not job-killing default. it doesn't kill any jobs but it doesn't necessarily create them either. >> on the other hand, there is something interesting that i thought the president had to say. i saw you nodding as we were listening to barack obama. he thanked the american people as he thinks eventually they put the pressure on and got this deal done, in spite of the fact there are more than a few people who would argue that at least on the far right, the members...
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was he so fowerful, john boehner, being willing to stand up to him, could john boehner not rolled over a freshman senator who had been there one year. >> what happened in the 2014 elections? kind of blurry in my mind. i have somehow the feeling that republicans won the senate and gained seats in the house. there's a lot of people in a petty way taking out their unhappiness, dislikes, and i guess entitled to. but i think, for me, maybe i'm just this is my own view, donald trump should not be president. you think that in a strong way, you're willing to put other things aside and do your best to stop donald trump from being president. >> my next question, this idea of a third party candidacy. if donald trump is likely to be the republican nominee if there's another option on the ballot fall for people like you, the planning has to be happening now. looking at ballot deadlines looming. is this something you want to pursue? >> yes, planning is happening. it's tough. but i wouldn't overstate the deadline. right, texas comes up first and then north carolina. there's no other deadline before j
was he so fowerful, john boehner, being willing to stand up to him, could john boehner not rolled over a freshman senator who had been there one year. >> what happened in the 2014 elections? kind of blurry in my mind. i have somehow the feeling that republicans won the senate and gained seats in the house. there's a lot of people in a petty way taking out their unhappiness, dislikes, and i guess entitled to. but i think, for me, maybe i'm just this is my own view, donald trump should not...
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sometimes when john boehner has to go to those 80 or 100 democrats, sometimes that means john boehner has to give up something. one of the problems republicans have confronted in this new era of politics is when you have big -- if you're conservative, saying i'm going to stand up to john boehner, i don't think he's conservative enough, that forces john boehner to have to go back to democrats to pass legislation, that ends up undercutting the republican position. >> not only that and i have to get to this and i know -- hogan, i halfway promised myself i wouldn't do it but i have to. the guy that's going to be the whip, the guy that has to corral the votes, whip the vote for john boehner is still a guy named steve scalise who at once called himself david duke without the baggage. in the end, even though he's going to get the position doesn't this hurt the republican party brand every time he has to go forward and whip votes? he has to be a public persona. >> i think he can handle the brand damage over time. i think what will make republicans sit up and pay attention, and this does the s
sometimes when john boehner has to go to those 80 or 100 democrats, sometimes that means john boehner has to give up something. one of the problems republicans have confronted in this new era of politics is when you have big -- if you're conservative, saying i'm going to stand up to john boehner, i don't think he's conservative enough, that forces john boehner to have to go back to democrats to pass legislation, that ends up undercutting the republican position. >> not only that and i...
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. >> john boehner yesterday peaked. john boehner is from a town called redding, ohio. he grew up one of 12 in a very small house, never expected to graduate from college or get out of ruding, ohio. he realized that he peaked really at the top of the top yesterday. so as terms of why is he doing this, from what i'm told from aides is that boehner wants to protect the institution and he's actually references pope francis in regards to how pope benedict left the papacy of the catholic church, essentially that it had become too distracting for him to say on with all of these questions of whether or not there would be an insurrection over something as routine as funding the government. and boehner realized this had to do with him and he's falling on the sword. i'm told he will put his ducks in the row and try to leave the institution the best it can be for the party. whether that means kevin mccarthy will take over as speaker, we don't know. kevin mckacarthy has the same politics as john boehner. mccarthy does have better relationships with members individually so we'll see
. >> john boehner yesterday peaked. john boehner is from a town called redding, ohio. he grew up one of 12 in a very small house, never expected to graduate from college or get out of ruding, ohio. he realized that he peaked really at the top of the top yesterday. so as terms of why is he doing this, from what i'm told from aides is that boehner wants to protect the institution and he's actually references pope francis in regards to how pope benedict left the papacy of the catholic...
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that was a sad john boehner, that was a dejektsed john boehner. he had one thing to say. he's usually quite jovial with reporters. he didn't want anything to do with us. he wanted to go to bed or plot the next step. one of the more underreported stories here on the hill is these federal workers are going to be furloughed. there's no guarantee they get their pay back. you're from dc. you know how many federal workers there are in the area. there's a real worry that because of the appetite for cutting spending in this congress, you can see this shut down go on for a few days and these phones be presefolks be p the house republicans saying why should we pay you when you didn't work. but as far as where we move on from here your guess is as good as mine. apparently, that was supposed to be the magic bullet that was going to solve that. harry rooeeid is going to table later on today. they're still going to have to pass a clean cr bill. it's a question of when, not if. and we don't know. we do not know. there could be some more riders attached on the bills going back to the sen
that was a sad john boehner, that was a dejektsed john boehner. he had one thing to say. he's usually quite jovial with reporters. he didn't want anything to do with us. he wanted to go to bed or plot the next step. one of the more underreported stories here on the hill is these federal workers are going to be furloughed. there's no guarantee they get their pay back. you're from dc. you know how many federal workers there are in the area. there's a real worry that because of the appetite for...
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john boehner is one of 12 children. he came from running ohio, i have seen his house, he was in a room with his brothers and sisters, his parents slept on a pull-out couch. never in a million years did he think he would graduate from college, be a successful businessman, get to congress, much less become speaker of the house. for him to have the pope next to him, i personally think from reading him for awhile, that was the highest of high and he saw what was on the horizon for the next few months. he could get through it if he wanted to but he would put a lot of his friends through difficult votes if they were to end up supporting him in one of those vacate the chair elections and thought this was the right time. he's not a legacy guy as he said today. i'm going to be very interested to see what he does after his time here in congress. i suspect he will go to his favorite pursuit which is golf. he's giot a very good handicap. he's got the place down in florida. but quite a striking turn of events. what's going to happen
john boehner is one of 12 children. he came from running ohio, i have seen his house, he was in a room with his brothers and sisters, his parents slept on a pull-out couch. never in a million years did he think he would graduate from college, be a successful businessman, get to congress, much less become speaker of the house. for him to have the pope next to him, i personally think from reading him for awhile, that was the highest of high and he saw what was on the horizon for the next few...
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that's john boehner. >> was that you, howard dean? >> this is sam. >> go ahead. >> i wanted to say this internal republican caucus mellow drama, they don't exist in a vacuum. i understand he needed to solidify his control over the house and maybe playing this out was the way to do it but in the process many thousands of lives were disrupted and many people were hurt in their personal lives and professional lives. we talked to a number of scientists whose research may have been damaged because they couldn't operate in the government run facilities they normally use. these are not things you should take as power struggling or political manipulation there are costs to these decisions. s & p said it was $24 billion in lost economic activity. was this worth playing this out? >> those are tough -- >> let's go to gene robinson on this. what is the country's verdict going to be on the $24 billion cost of the lesson that john boehner had to teach young republicans? >> well, look, the country's verdict is clear. every poll we've seen shows that
that's john boehner. >> was that you, howard dean? >> this is sam. >> go ahead. >> i wanted to say this internal republican caucus mellow drama, they don't exist in a vacuum. i understand he needed to solidify his control over the house and maybe playing this out was the way to do it but in the process many thousands of lives were disrupted and many people were hurt in their personal lives and professional lives. we talked to a number of scientists whose research may...
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i believe that john boehner really is a legislator at heart. he wrote no child left behind with ted kennedy. he's dealing with this caucus that doesn't want to follow him. but they are starting to see their power hemmed in by their losses at the polls. and they really have now they re to go to either follow john boehner or continue to make noise. you can make all the noise you want, but john boehner's allays are saying, go ahead and make your noise, we'll start legislating and start running a house that's functional and maybe even pass a law or too. >> that is -- a functional house! >> i know. this is the beginning. >> but -- yeah, the very, very -- in the basement. the basement of a functional house. >> the dawn. >> patricia, when you talk about leverage and levers of power, one of the earmarks and i'm not going to argue in favor of bringing back ear marks, but those diminish the speaker's power, and if you look at what he has left in his arsenal, money and fund-raising is something that john boehner has been proven to be really good at. and i
i believe that john boehner really is a legislator at heart. he wrote no child left behind with ted kennedy. he's dealing with this caucus that doesn't want to follow him. but they are starting to see their power hemmed in by their losses at the polls. and they really have now they re to go to either follow john boehner or continue to make noise. you can make all the noise you want, but john boehner's allays are saying, go ahead and make your noise, we'll start legislating and start running a...
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john boehner, nan seep pelosi. could have got in, 100, 180-some democrats, 190-some democrats to vote for this deal. they wouldn't have needed to shut the government down. wouldn't have needed to rattle the markets. wouldn't have needed to send hundreds of thousand home from work. shutdown from the republican party was a healthy thing the they felt the pain of it. they saw their poll numbers go lower than they had gone before. they caved. the boehner room is dead. the house rule is suspended. they actually did the entire fold here. so, i do think that when this next deadline runs out, it is possible we may not see a deal from the budget committee, possible we will do more short term extensions and things like that. the likelihood of the republican party will think it can do a shut don or down or debt ceilin reduced. i think there is a lesson learned by many in the gop here. that's actually valuable. >> mark patterson. i read earlier in the show, a series of threats that were issued today by right-wing lobbying grou
john boehner, nan seep pelosi. could have got in, 100, 180-some democrats, 190-some democrats to vote for this deal. they wouldn't have needed to shut the government down. wouldn't have needed to rattle the markets. wouldn't have needed to send hundreds of thousand home from work. shutdown from the republican party was a healthy thing the they felt the pain of it. they saw their poll numbers go lower than they had gone before. they caved. the boehner room is dead. the house rule is suspended....
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what happened to john boehner? >> man, i don't know, john boehner is just having a rough go of it. and here is the problem, the next thing he has to do -- you have to pass a farm bill. this is like the defense appropriations. i mean, i got an e-mail from a democratic member of congress today saying just for the record, we were able to pass our farm bill, there is good stuff, a lot of bad and good stuff, you have to pass it like the defense appropriations. so john boehner now, here is the fundamental problem, the 62 no-votes was because people thought there was not enough cuts, particularly on the food cuts. so if you're john boehner he has a calculation to make, a pre-staging, which is where do i go? where do i try to bring democrats back on board? and we've seen basically what that means, this farm bill amazingly will probably get worse in the next generation. >> well, i still don't understand the calculations, melissa, john boehner has not voted on a farm bill since 1996. they thought they had enough votes for it? but he was not sure. and after the plan b debacle, this is somebod
what happened to john boehner? >> man, i don't know, john boehner is just having a rough go of it. and here is the problem, the next thing he has to do -- you have to pass a farm bill. this is like the defense appropriations. i mean, i got an e-mail from a democratic member of congress today saying just for the record, we were able to pass our farm bill, there is good stuff, a lot of bad and good stuff, you have to pass it like the defense appropriations. so john boehner now, here is the...
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. >> that is a no, i won't vote for john boehner. and john boehner knows it. brian smith is being backed for the club for growth, you know the even crazier club that is backed by grover norquist. it is set up by a website called primarymycongressman.com. and brian smith clicked on that website and became a republican congressional candidate. and a top reason for the club for growth challenging -- incumbent republicans and supporting primaries against incumbent mike simpson, is that mike simpson voted to increase the debt limit just like john boehner asked him to after john boehner struck a deal with president obama in 2011. >> when you look at this final agreement that we came to with the white house, you know, i got 98% of what i wanted. i'm pretty happy. >> and with that agreement, job led eight term republican congressman mike simpson from the safest seat in the house straight into a primary fight with primary, congressman candidate brian smith. and that primary is going to be a whale of a fight. joining me now, our former labor secretary, robert reisch, an
. >> that is a no, i won't vote for john boehner. and john boehner knows it. brian smith is being backed for the club for growth, you know the even crazier club that is backed by grover norquist. it is set up by a website called primarymycongressman.com. and brian smith clicked on that website and became a republican congressional candidate. and a top reason for the club for growth challenging -- incumbent republicans and supporting primaries against incumbent mike simpson, is that mike...
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back. >> john boehner had some interesting comments last night. he allowed his inner trump to come out. you know, i will say this. if you're wondering who actually has stood up to washington, i think john boehner has made it crystal clear. john boehner in his remarks described donald trump as his texting and golfing buddy. so if you want someone that's a texting and golfing buddy f you're happy with john boehner, speaker of the house and you want a president like john boehner, donald trump's your man. >> cruz is also fund-raising off of boehner's comments. he described how pivotal indiana is to deciding the gop nominee. >> i am so grateful that the entire country is now looking to indiana. [ applause ] we are at the edge of a cliff staring downward. and it is the common sense and good judgment of the hoosier state that is the one thing that stands between us and plunging over the cliff. >> this comes as cruz launched new ads in indiana featuring his vp pick carly fiorina. meanwhile, the indianapolis star is ignoring the recent cruz/kasich pact by
back. >> john boehner had some interesting comments last night. he allowed his inner trump to come out. you know, i will say this. if you're wondering who actually has stood up to washington, i think john boehner has made it crystal clear. john boehner in his remarks described donald trump as his texting and golfing buddy. so if you want someone that's a texting and golfing buddy f you're happy with john boehner, speaker of the house and you want a president like john boehner, donald...
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more than john boehner does. and that's why boehner turned tail. this isn't just if you do what we want you to do we will contribute money to your campaign or if you don't do, then maybe we will run some ads against you. as david is saying they are the ones with all the influence among the base. it's not really the outside groups that these congressmen are fearing. it is the rabid republican base in their districts coming up and showing up at town halls and screaming at them. >> listen, you can't count on outside groups. >> david, there used to be a center of both parties that resisted the impulses that were coming from the left edge of the party and there was also a conservative edge of the democratic party represented by senators that we no longer have. and just like the republican party used to have the different factions. this thing you describe as just a handful. >> john boehner has absolutely no leverage over this radical band of jackals within his own party. they worry about coke money. they don't want it against them. they don't care about
more than john boehner does. and that's why boehner turned tail. this isn't just if you do what we want you to do we will contribute money to your campaign or if you don't do, then maybe we will run some ads against you. as david is saying they are the ones with all the influence among the base. it's not really the outside groups that these congressmen are fearing. it is the rabid republican base in their districts coming up and showing up at town halls and screaming at them. >> listen,...
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does john boehner bring that up? and if he does bring it up, do democrats vote for that and does it pass? >> we have got to see what the final deal looks like, but essentially we're expecting something that we can vote for that comes from the senate that is a john boehner product. and john boehner has to decide whether or not he wants to let the full house vote and try to pass it with 218 votes of the whole house or whether he wants to cling to his speakership and insist on it being 217 votes from his members, driven by tea party extremists who think -- who have literally separated themselves from reality. >> people should beware of the math here. if john boehner wants to pass something with just republican votes, he's only about 18 votes he can lose, and there's 80 people that signed the letter to defund obama care. so if nancy pelosi says i'm not giving you any democratic votes and john boehner only has to pass it with republicans, he basically has to bring it to the floor and get democrats to bail him out. >> he c
does john boehner bring that up? and if he does bring it up, do democrats vote for that and does it pass? >> we have got to see what the final deal looks like, but essentially we're expecting something that we can vote for that comes from the senate that is a john boehner product. and john boehner has to decide whether or not he wants to let the full house vote and try to pass it with 218 votes of the whole house or whether he wants to cling to his speakership and insist on it being 217...
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john boehner is retired. no one should be too surprised that john boehner feels free to tell the truth as he sees it about ted cruz. especially when it can v it can hurt ted cruz the most. and everywhere he goes, everyone has a recording device in their pockets, we shouldn't be surprised. we got to hear john boehner call ted cruz the devil. >> how about ted cruz? >> lucifer in the flesh. in washington, i have many democrat friends, i have republican friends. i get to along with almost everybody. but i have never worked with a more miserable son of a bimp in my life. over my dead body, will he be president. >> over my dead body. john boehner said that to an audience at stanford university last night. we learned about his personal history with donald trump and that he doesn't see that donald trump can win the presidency because there are just not enough voters who look like john boehner and donald trump. >> donald trump and i are friends. we played a lot of golf over the years. we used to text. we used to call
john boehner is retired. no one should be too surprised that john boehner feels free to tell the truth as he sees it about ted cruz. especially when it can v it can hurt ted cruz the most. and everywhere he goes, everyone has a recording device in their pockets, we shouldn't be surprised. we got to hear john boehner call ted cruz the devil. >> how about ted cruz? >> lucifer in the flesh. in washington, i have many democrat friends, i have republican friends. i get to along with...
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john boehner is going to have to rely upon democrats. if he's going to remain as speaker he's got to say to his folks, i stood my ground. you did send the imagine. you cast the boot you wanted to cast on principle without standing many the way of an umt mate default. >> chuck todd, it strikes me as david's talking and as we've heard james cramer that all bets are off. it used to be that they would go into that room and have the arm twisting moment with the peeker of the house. he'd offer them some prosecuting for their district. as we heard last night that doesn't cut it because they are reformers. they came here without the institutional set of motives. what is the play? what does the white house think the play is? >> the play at this point is i think you're going to see a handful of republican senators either with public approval for mitch mcconnell on taccit approval. they're going to find a way to get a bipartisan bill out of the senate probably some time on sunday that renegotiating the second part of this. that's where this is head
john boehner is going to have to rely upon democrats. if he's going to remain as speaker he's got to say to his folks, i stood my ground. you did send the imagine. you cast the boot you wanted to cast on principle without standing many the way of an umt mate default. >> chuck todd, it strikes me as david's talking and as we've heard james cramer that all bets are off. it used to be that they would go into that room and have the arm twisting moment with the peeker of the house. he'd offer...
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john boehner basically said no to all of that. and that's really not acceptable leadership. >> is there any -- should harry reid amend the bill that the house sent over at all? the fact is, harry reid has -- needs to add republican cooperation. he wants to say, look, this isn't a game. this isn't show. you know, i can bring out a bill, pass a bill. if john boehner says i'm not going to look at that, what's the point? let's make something happen here. that is what the american people are looking for. we're concerned about the fiscal and economic policies. there's a recovery period that we're experiencing to put more challenges before the economy both consumers and investors. let's create certainty. let's make sure that we pass tax cuts for -- you know, for the majority, the advanced majority, 98%. and let's get that done and move through the regular process to deal with the bigger questions. i'd like to ask you before we go, obviously, the governorship is up in 2014, is up for a race in pennsylvania. any interest in running against
john boehner basically said no to all of that. and that's really not acceptable leadership. >> is there any -- should harry reid amend the bill that the house sent over at all? the fact is, harry reid has -- needs to add republican cooperation. he wants to say, look, this isn't a game. this isn't show. you know, i can bring out a bill, pass a bill. if john boehner says i'm not going to look at that, what's the point? let's make something happen here. that is what the american people are...
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now, this may well present a problem for john boehner's caucus, because john boehner sent a letter to the president this week with his own plan, which advocates what just might be the least popular policy in american politics. okay, maybe that's hyperbole. but just be a tiny bit, i mean, mandatory gay marriage, in which every single married straight person had to immediately divorce their spouse, and accept a state-assigned same-gender spouse to replace them would probably be more popular than what john boehner proposed this week. what john boehner is advocating is making medicare available to fewer americans. as it happens, there is brand-new polling out today on how americans feel about the idea of congress using these deficit negotiations to make cuts to medicare. 79% of americans say they do not want congress to touch medicare in these deficit negotiations. 79%. if you want to get specific about john boehner's proposal, what he wants to do to medicare is to raise the eligibility age from 65 to 67. and as it turns out, there is also recent polling on that specific proposal. and it
now, this may well present a problem for john boehner's caucus, because john boehner sent a letter to the president this week with his own plan, which advocates what just might be the least popular policy in american politics. okay, maybe that's hyperbole. but just be a tiny bit, i mean, mandatory gay marriage, in which every single married straight person had to immediately divorce their spouse, and accept a state-assigned same-gender spouse to replace them would probably be more popular than...
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john boehner says the you're getting the one, john boehner says you have about $800 billion, he is not including interest payments. we have talked about this a lot on the show, so much of the fiscal cliff is about who has leverage if they don't come to a deal. and so far, the president usually has because either all the tax cuts expire or a lot of republicans have said we'll just pass the senate bill, which allows for all the tax cuts over $250,000 to expire. that is the president's position. john boehner is trying to create a reality, a leverage point a little friendlier to him, by moving it up to a million and hoping it will split the democrats. it doesn't, at this point, appear to be working. >> sam stein, isn't plan b good for the white house? isn't the white house just kind of pretending they're not crazy about john boehner? especially the part where he says he will bring the senate bill to a vote in the house? >> well, yeah, it is good in one sense, that they will have a number of republicans voting for a tax hike. how many republicans they will get is another question entirely.
john boehner says the you're getting the one, john boehner says you have about $800 billion, he is not including interest payments. we have talked about this a lot on the show, so much of the fiscal cliff is about who has leverage if they don't come to a deal. and so far, the president usually has because either all the tax cuts expire or a lot of republicans have said we'll just pass the senate bill, which allows for all the tax cuts over $250,000 to expire. that is the president's position....